Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture

After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Fake Terrorist: Obama Wants Sharia Law

We have a relatively new group here called Transformation Michigan, group of serious wingnuts like you wouldn’t believe. They were one of the groups that organized that prayer rally at Ford Field a few weeks ago and they’ve been going all over the state announcing a divorce decree between the United States and Baal. Yeah, we’re talking some serious crazy here. And Rachel Tabachnick at Talk2Action reports on a conference call they held recently that included Kalam Saleem, one of the many fake “ex-terrorists” that are making money by claiming to be experts on terrorism. Saleem says Obama wants Sharia law.

Saleem: Let’s reveal what Shariah law says. What we have to fear the most as American nation is Shariah law . Because, even our president, he want to bring about Shariah law. He celebrated Eid Al-Fitr, which is Ramadan in the White House. Therefore, he’s about to break down Article 6 which is the heart of the Constitution, which is separation of the church and the government. If he breaks this, the Shariah law will be supreme in America, will be equal to the American governing.

So, in 20 years America will be completely changing from a culture of liberty, pursuit of happiness, glory, and victory, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, to basically living under the hate crime bills and also we’ll have to abide in a law that will be equal to our Constitution, which will be Islamic law.

Kaleem is a fraud and a moron. First of all, Article 6 says there can be no religious test for office. And this is a conference call hosted by an organization that unabashedly seeks “dominion” over the government and the official establishment of Christianity. And by the way, Bush celebrated Ramadan in the White House too. He invited lots of prominent Muslim leaders to the White House, hosted dinners for the event and sent out official proclamations recognizing the history of Ramadan. But Saleem didn’t claim he wanted to impose Sharia law. Nor has he offered even a remotely plausible way in which Sharia could possibly be imposed in this country. He either has serious paranoid delusions or he is trafficking in fear to make money.

So, wanting the Muslim book of fairy tales to be the supreme law of the land is unconstitutional, but making the Christian book of fairy tales to be the supreme law of the land is what the Founding Fathers truly wanted.

So, in 20 years America will be completely changing from a culture of liberty, pursuit of happiness, glory, and victory, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, to basically living under the hate crime bills

Islam in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_StatesCached – Similar
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1.8 Million (2011) 0.6% of the U.S. population (2011) ….. Within the Muslim community in the United States there exist a number of different traditions. As in the

Many of those Moslems are in the USA precisely because it isn’t a Moslem country. They are refugees from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Saudi Arabia. They came here to get away from the dysfunctional societies that fundie Islam produces.

It simply isn’t possible for 2 million people to impose their Sharia law on a nation of 310 million who don’t want it.

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1.8 Million (2011) 0.6% of the U.S. population (2011) ….. Within the Muslim community in the United States there exist a number of different traditions. As in the

Many of those Moslems are in the USA precisely because it isn’t a Moslem country. They are refugees from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Saudi Arabia. They came here to get away from the dysfunctional societies that fundie Islam produces.

It simply isn’t possible for 2 million people to impose their Sharia law on a nation of 310 million who don’t want it.

This kind of stuff is so stupid on so many levels, it’s almost not worth getting into. I mean, it just piles wrongness upon wrongness in so many layers that you get lost just trying to sort out the delusions.

I did find this part funny though:

So, in 20 years America will be completely changing from a culture of liberty, pursuit of happiness, glory, and victory, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, to basically living under the hate crime bills…

For some odd reason, the fundies impute hate crime laws with all sorts of magical properties, kind of like water fluoridation. To their stunted minds, a hate crimes bill is like the suspension of the rule of law, allowing totalitarian powers to reign free. Literally anything can follow from them. I’m sure that someone, at some point, took the time to explain that hate crime laws only tack on extra penalties to things that are already illegal, but it was apparently to no avail.

Maybe someone needs to organise a counter-group; Transformers Michigan. A bunch of people cosplaying as Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shockwave, Jazz etc who not only can counter their arguments but look way cooler doing it (as long as they’re doing the G1 cartoon versions, not something from those excremental films)